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Interesting idea. I just saw this https://aeropress.com/products/aeropress-flow-control-filter..., so you can do the inverted without the inversion, could be interesting! I order one to see :)

One book in my to-read list is After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History by Arthur C. Danto. I hope it is going to hit this nail right in the head.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691163895/af...

"The classic and provocative account of how art changed irrevocably with pop art and why traditional aesthetics can’t make sense of contemporary art"

(This is more a comment to the whole thread than this one comment that initiated it)

There is no clear answer to what art is, but there are many approaches to try to answer it. That is essentially what Theory of Art (or Philosophy of Art) is concerned about as a field of study.

Those approaches appear at distinct points in time and their ideas are rooted on the art and context of that time.

If you want to look at this site like Kant looked at art, from a pure aesthetic form, then you will say it is not art. You may even be offended that the question is asked.

But look at it through the lens of modern art theory, where art is communication, where art is experience, where art is interaction, where art is more about the content than the form, then it is definitely art.

If Kant had access to the Internet and was concerned about privacy, he might have found it to be art too :)

I did, and it worked okay too, but it makes less coffee than I want to have in one cup :)

One thing that I wish I knew was the conflict between the parent short-term vs long-term benefits.

Imagine there is a big meltdown because the child wants a snack. The parents are exhausted and you just need it to stop. You will have a strong interest in finding a quick short-term solution (ie. give the kid a snack) because it will produce immediate benefit (end the meltdown). But in the long term that may have side effects (e.g. the kid will expect snack at any time they want).

The long-term goal (eating schedule) has a high short term cost (meltdown will go longer and be harder) but often ends up paying off in a big way over time.

I wish I had paid more attention to that, but I don't want to be too hard on my old exhausted self :)

As a second time parent, looking back now, that is such a good advice. On the first play-through we second guessed ourselves so much. On the second time, we knew where all the good loot was hidden. :) we felt so much more in control. The truth is that a lot of details first-time parents try to control don't really matter that much or cannot really be controlled.

Also use an aeropress, I put the press over a cup and first put just enough hot water to wet the grounds. Then I wait about 30 seconds and fill it to the top. Mix it for 10-20 seconds and put the top in to hold the water inside. Leave it for about 1-2min and then press. This makes a nice strong cup with a single scoop of coffee.

This is really cool, I love the idea of demonstrating the different approaches that a visualization can take and how it affects the message.

It's very useful as a source of inspiration.

This makes me hopeful, the internet can still be interesting when we manage to break away from the attention trap of infinite feed and the prepared content designed to optimize likes. Feels like the raw homepages of a long time ago.

When I am hiring I always look at personal websites if they are available. They provide a more realistic picture of the person and their interests, the resume is too formal an optimized for marketing.

If you have a site, and it has content, and shows more about what you are interested in, it counts a lot for me. Extra points if it links to code in GitHub.

But not any website will do, if it feels like an 5-minute thoughtless effort, with an empty template and a single entry dated 4 years ago saying "TODO", then it will count against you.

I can see that, I take it mostly as a source of inspiration, I don't think we will apply it literally.

But going through the process of creating an experience map was so interesting, it helped us realize how little we knew about some parts of the user experience. And the idea of regularly engaging with users is very appealing to shorten the feedback cycle. Sometimes there are little things you could do for cheap that add a lot of value, I am hoping this will help find them more efficiently.

While I am not in the startup world, I feel like "Continuous Discovery Habits" by Teresa Torres would be a great read covering a similar topic. It talks about how to manage the business needs vs customer needs and focusing on outcome vs output. About continuously engaging with customer to validate your assumptions, etc.

In general anything on Human Centered Design could be useful.

I think a great intro to RPG for young kids (5-6 year-olds) is Little Wizards. It's originally French, but I have a version in English. It combines enough choice and customization to make it interesting, but without being too complex. It's a world where magic exists, but only kids can use it, so that was a plus for the kids :)

https://www.dicemonkey.net/2020/03/13/rpg-review-little-wiza...

Ultimately it's not a question of agreeing or disagreeing, it's a question of respect. We live in a world where either you agree with me in everything or you must be destroyed.

The lack of nuance is spot on. The web went from long content in homepages/blogs, to short posts on social medias, to "like" and "share" buttons (1-bit)... it's hard to have nuance when you only take 2 seconds to form your opinion.

+1 The sooner in your career (or life) you get used to failing and learning from it, the more potential (or happiness) you will have.

If a search engine were to penalize ads, I bet a lot of those old sites would surface. The old web was an "amateur" web, people created sites to share content they were excited about, not to monetize it (or to allow a platform to monetize it). If search engines also make most of their money from advertising, they have a big conflict of interest. We need an open source search engine owned by a non-profit organization following the model of Signal.

I usually get new book ideas from other books, maybe it's a reference to an author or a quote. This has been great for staying in the topic. Another similar source are articles I read online, specially the ones that look well researched.

A site that has been a great source for ideas is https://www.themarginalian.org/ by Maria Popova. It's so well written and she usually brings together different books that are somehow connected by the topic of the article.

The last post is a list of the best books for 2023, a lot of non-fiction https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/12/19/favorite-books-of-...

That's so true, it's almost like a return to the beginning (Yahoo Web Directory). We need to find a way to curate content that scales but in a way that eliminates the incentive for bad actors to try SEO-like approaches to game the process.

That feels impossible without a feasible alternative to the ad-based revenue model.

Very interesting, thanks for posting!

I am not sure if the way to go is a cheap web, small web, slow web, indie web, or maybe some combination of these attributes, but something about the current web feels off, mass produced and superficial.

The old sites created by people who did cool stuff just for the sake of doing it are so hard to find now. I miss them.

+1 Also Fastmail, have used it for a few years now, you can add multiple domains and have all email end up into the same inbox with catch all addresses. When you reply you can pick which domain the response comes from.

Yeah, I also have the paper and the audio versions. I did not like the narrator in the audiobook too much, I wish she had narrated it herself.

"How to do nothing" by Jenny Odell is such a great book. Probably not for the usual reader of Hacker News, but I strongly recommend it to anyone who also starts to feel the fake "productivity" pressure imposed by the attention economy.

Also worth checking more about Jenny Odell's other projects, like The Bureau of Suspended Objects (https://www.jennyodell.com/bso-cjm.html)

There is an exhibit right now at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in NYC about the work of Henry Dreyfuss did with his Symbol Sourcebook (https://www.cooperhewitt.org/channel/give-me-a-sign/) which heavily influenced the design of most symbols we use today, including this one.

You can view most of the exhibit online: https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/exhibitions/2318807647/

Worth taking a look!